Word: heartbeating
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...built on a reclaimed swamp. His California ads are moody and emotive: Kennedyesque, he walks along a beach, skipping rocks into the ocean; on the sound track the thumping of a heart-a wordplay on his name-leads into his anthem that "new vision, new ideas, are the heartbeat of this country's future...
...vice presidency itself, and the qualifications one should expect a candidate to bring to it. The office is almost metaphysically bizarre. In some thin, Zen way, it is the most interesting office in American public life, a political antiworld: it is a condition of utter impotence that is a heartbeat away from the greatest power in the world. It is a form of political cryonics. The Vice President is, so to speak, flash-frozen and then, should the need arise, thawed out later. There is no such thing as a good Vice President or a bad Vice President?a Vice...
...normal in most children, but to Jimmy Tontlewicz these activities represent hard-won victories. On Jan. 15, while sledding with his father, Jimmy plunged into the icy waters of Lake Michigan. When rescuers pulled him out, he had been submerged for at least 20 minutes and had no discernible heartbeat, pulse or breathing. In Chicago last week doctors said Jimmy is progressing so well that they hope to send him home this month...
...diagonal strips of shadow fall like knife scars on every face; steam rises from the streets and rolls off the most innocuous front porch. Clocks, with or without hands, are everywhere, reminding the Motorcycle Boy of his mortality; and the sound track has the ominous rhythm of a heartbeat, a time bomb...
Unlike the eyes, the baby's ears have been functioning even before birth, and the newborn arrives with a whole set of auditory reactions. As early as the 1960s, tests indicated that babies go to sleep faster to the recorded sound of a human heartbeat or any similarly rhythmic sound. More recent studies indicate that by the time they are born, babies already prefer female voices; within a few weeks, they recognize the sound of their mother's speech...